With Great Joy

This post is part of a series I'm doing as a way to evaluate our school year.  I am covering each subject, describing what we did; wha...

One of my goals for this school year-- well, for every school year- was to be more diligent in history narrations.  It has really been a go...

This is Part 4 (and the final post) in an impromptu series I'm doing in response to a readers question about our schedule. Here is ...

We just wrapped up our first day of school.  We're easing into it this year, so we aren't doing every single subject this first week...

We're not schooling through the summer, but we do continue narrating after we've read something.  I begin with one child, let them t...

I had an hour in a coffee shop all by myself the other day and I used it to begin a list in my journal in regards to school for next year.  ...

So often when my kids do narrations I forget that it can be so much more than simply a verbal retelling of what we've read. Yesterday ...

The whole idea behind narration is that a child will more fully absorb what they have read or heard read to them if they narrate it, or tell...